What you create joins you: nine great times to create

This post is dedicated to my new friend Joey Gray, who told me upon our very first meeting this week that, at age 43, it’s high time I move past my stubborn insistence on always being the learner in the room and never, ever, the teacher. Here’s what I’ve learned about...

Real superpower #1: Finding fun in all of the above

Have you ever hit a point when you realized that a bunch of things you used to find really fun are just not that much fun for you anymore? What did you do about it? I hit that point this summer. Hit the point of realizing that a pile of things that used to be fun for...

Allowing space and time to embrace “I don’t know”

While cleaning my office this morning I found an old journal called Gratitude: A Journal. It actually says that on its salmon-colored cover and spine. According to the first entry, I got it in July 2009—and as I now recall, I got one for me, one for my mom, and one...

Receiving time

I’m at Office Nomads coworking space today, joining others for an hour of “free writing time.” We came together, shut off the email, the Internet, the phone, and the iPad to just write. The folks at the table around me haven’t been finding enough time in their days to...

Finding all of me

This post is part of Create Your Own Travel Guide Month, celebrating the release of our new book A Travel Guide for Transitions… As we created our book this spring, it came clear to Bas that by taking his journey outside the corporate world he had discovered an...